Word: genus
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...American college student, regaled with novels like Daudet's Sappho and nourished upon choice anecdotes of the Montmartre, has long been accustomed to look to Paris as the Elysian Fields of the genus Student. But the days of cheap beer and gay grisettes exist only in the imagination. The present lot of the Parisian student is indeed, a sorry...
...denying emphatically any such exciting and adventurous experiences as the CRIMSON reported him to have had he did admit under pressure to having hunted for five days in company with his brother during which time he "saw" a lion, and shot a few African bush animals of the same genus as the American skunk...
...SHOW-OFF-One of the very best etchings of the genus fourflusher, hoisted with his own boosting...
Previous to the publication of this plan there was some criticism and not a little mockery. There had been, said many, plans and plans, new plans and more plans. But this program is of a slightly different genus. Its forerunners were framed to meet changing ideas of education. This one was formulated to meet necessity. The College in general, and the Committee in particular, can only be congratulated on meeting that grim dragon courageously and diplomatically...
...Streptococcus-a genus of micro-organisms which do not move but remain grouped in long chains, producing pus and causing pneumonia, erysipelas...